1964 (production)

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

For information about 1964 in the fictional Star Trek universe, please see 1964.

Events

January

• 1 January – Juliana Donald is born.
• 4 January – David Bowe is born.
• 7 January – Aaron Lopresti and Charles Tentindo are born.
• 8 January – Jeffrey S. Jensen is born.
• 11 January – John Thibodeau is born.
• 12 January – Jeff Bezos is born.
• 15 January – Kevin Tinsley is born.
• 27 January – Floyd, Lloyd, and Troy Weaver are born.
• 28 January – John Kennedy Hayden is born.
• 30 January – Mark Paniccia is born.

February

• 1 February – Kaitlin Hopkins and Steve Larson are born.
• 12 February – Raphael Sbarge is born.
• 14 February – Zach Galligan is born.
• 17 February – John Cragen is born.
• 18 February – Kent A. Ono is born.
• 20 February – Willie Garson is born.
• 27 February – John Pyper-Ferguson is born.

March

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• 4 March – Ivory Broome is born.
• 6 March – Calvin Dean is born.
• 9 March – Ken Schafer is born.
• 11 March – Cover date of "Star Trek is...", the original series proposal written by Gene Roddenberry.
• 12 March – Bari Hochwald is born.
• 13 March – Mark Daniel Cade is born.
• 14 March – Julia Ecklar and Crystal LaPrie are born.
• 19 March – Ken Feinberg and Marjorie Monaghan are born.
• 24 March – Lisa Lord is born.
• 25 March – Carol Abney is born.

April

• 1 April – Bill Oakley and Naren Shankar are born.
• 2 April – Jana Marie Hupp is born.
• 3 April – Craig Benton and Dyanna Lynn are born.
• 7 April – Michael A. Martin is born.
• 11 April – Vincent Teixeira is born.
• 14 April – Robert Clendenin is born.
• 15 April – Kamala Lopez-Dawson and Tania McComas are born.
• 23 April – Ken Clark is born.
• 24 April – Marybeth Massett is born.
• 25 April – Nicole Donery is born.
• 27 April – Michael Mahonen and Lisa Wilcox are born.
• 28 April – Eric Stuart is born.
• After MGM had turned him down, Desilu, rumored to be desperate for a new television series, signs a three-year contract with Gene Roddenberry on the basis of the Star Trek format. (The Making of Star Trek; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story)
• 29 April – Russell Walks is born.
• Late April – Broadcasting network CBS (which had a first proposal deal with Desilu) turns down Star Trek in favor of Lost in Space, which they regarded as a more accessible "family" science-fiction show. (The Making of Star Trek; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story)

May

• Early May – NBC's Mort Werner, Vice-President in Charge of Programming, signs an agreement with Desilu. Roddenberry will write three Star Trek story outlines, one of which NBC will want to see further developed into a pilot. (The Making of Star Trek)
• Early May – Dorothy Fontana begins to work for Gene Roddenberry as an assistant and secretary. (The Making of Star Trek)
• 9 May – Sonja Sohn is born.
• 19 May – David Tischman and Sean Whalen are born.
• 22 May – Cari Thomas is born.
• 24 May – Paul D. Storrie is born.
• 25 May – Ricardo F. Delgado and Darlene Williams are born.
• 26 May – Michael Cuneo and Lenny Kravitz are born.
• 28 May – William Doyle is born.
• 30 May – Tom Morello and Mark A. Sheppard are born.

June

• 4 June – Chris Antonucci and Naghmeh Zand are born.
• 9 June – Rob Prior is born.
• 11 June – Wren T. Brown and Keythe Farley are born.
• 12 June – Kevin Dilmore is born.
• 13 June – Hugh Aodh O'Brien and Christopher Liam Moore are born.
• 16 June – Daniel Leonard Bernardi, Bret Kiene and Ron Sarchian are born.
• 21 June – Jim Argenbright is born.
• 24 June – Marianne Krawczyk is born.
• 27 June – Michael Reilly Burke, Maria del Mar, and Terry Serpico are born.
• 29 June – Three story outlines ("The Cage", "The Women" and "The Perfect World") are submitted to NBC. Despite reservations about the perceived costs and difficulties of producing the stories, NBC chooses the "The Cage" story line to be developed into a pilot episode.

July

• 2 July – Katy Boyer is born.
• 3 July – Joe Reynolds is born.
• 5 July – Ronald D. Moore is born.
• 6 July – John Ottman is born.
• 7 July – Bobby Brown is born.
• 8 July – Mike Christian is born.
• 12 July – Donald Sage Mackay and Carrie Stauber are born.
• 14 July – Jane Espenson is born.
• 15 July – Galyn Görg and Suzanne Onodera are born.
• 16 July – Amy Benedict is born.
• 18 July – Michelle Rudy is born.
• 19 July – Douglas Price is born.
• 21 July – Suzanne Ircha is born.
• 22 July – Travis Langley and Sonny Surowiec are born.
• 23 July – Lydia Triplett is born.
• 28 July – Jeff Schnaufer is born.

August

• 1 August – Melanie Shatner is born.
• 11 August – Pat Brosseau, Jim Lee and Lawrence Monoson are born.
• 19 August – Matt McKenzie is born.
• 20 August – Tanner Gill and Jaehne Moebius are born.
• 24 August – Jack Snider is born.
• 25 August – Dan Parent is born.
• 28 August – Original story for TOS: "Charlie X" is written, titled "Charlie is God."

September

• 8 September – First draft script for "The Cage" is submitted.
• 10 September – Doug Shrock and David Takemura are born.
• 13 September – Jenna Abrahamson-Minardi and Kim Robert Koscki are born.
• 14 September – Sean Callery is born.
• 17 September – Christian R. Conrad is born.
• 18 September – Adam Buckner is born.
• 28 September – Andy Kossin is born.

October

• 1 October – Ron Boyd and Estee Chandler are born.
• 4 October – Drew Renkewitz is born.
• 7 October – Glenn Lumsden and Tina Kotrich are born.
• 10 October – Michael Owen is born.
• 13 October – Rich Hosek and Matt Walsh are born.
• 14 October – Robin D. Laws is born.
• 16 October – Caitlin McKenna is born.
• 18 October – Brennan Dyson and Anthony Guidera are born.
• 20 October – Benjamin Livingston and Chris Wozniak are born.
• 21 October – Tom Morgan is born.
• 23 October – David Sobolov and John Van Citters are born.
• 25 October – Kevin Michael Richardson is born.
• 28 October – Jim Stubblefield and Robert Hewitt Wolfe are born.
• 30 October – Kim Fitzgerald is born.
• 31 October – Deborah Sale is born.
• Unknown date – Johanna McCloy is born.

November

• 3 November – Marjean Holden is born.
• 4 November – Jeff Cadiente is born.
• 7 November – Tiffani LoBue, Michael Papajohn and Garret Sato are born.
• 8 November – Construction on the three-foot Enterprise model is started by Richard C. Datin.
• 9 November – Robert Duncan McNeill is born.
• 15 November – The three-foot demonstration model of the USS Enterprise is completed and presented to Gene Roddenberry.
• 17 November – Color makeup tests with Leonard Nimoy and Majel Barrett at Desilu Culver Stage 15 for "The Cage" were done.
• 20 November –
  • Revised script for "The Cage" is submitted.
  • Kimble Jemison, Ned Vaughn and Philippe Vonlanthen are born.
• 21 November – Deborah Kampmeier and Stefan Sonnenfeld are born.
• 23 November – J.C. Stevens is born.
• 27 November – The first Star Trek: The Original Series scenes, with Jeffrey Hunter and John Hoyt, are filmed for "The Cage".
• 30 November – Michelle Johnston is born.

December

• 5 December – Cliff Eidelman is born.
• 7 December – Patrick Fabian and Henry Hayashi are born.
• 8 December – Teri Hatcher is born.
• 10 December – Monica Huppert is born.
• 11 December – Ayelet Waldman is born.
• 14 December – After requested modifications, the three-foot Enterprise studio model is delivered to Gene Roddenberry on the set of "The Cage", and used as an actual filming model for all visual effects shots in "The Cage", save for the most important one, "the zoom-in on the bridge" effects shot.
• 15 December – Brett Rickaby is born.
• 18 December – First unit filming is completed on "The Cage", going five days over schedule and US$164,248 over budget.
• 20 December – Pete Leinbach is born.
• 23 December –
  • Kenneth Biller is born.
  • Star Trek is mentioned in the New York Times as one of seven one-hour pilots currently under consideration by NBC. Other pilots under consideration are I Spy, Convoy, Indictment, The Ghost Breakers, The Mayor, and The Wackiest Ship In The Army.
• 24 December – Second unit filming is completed on "The Cage", with only "the zoom-in on the bridge" effect shot still outstanding.
• 26 December – Kristina Kochoff and Guy Vardaman are born.
• 27 December – Michael Berry, Jr. and Kavon Karami are born.
• 28 December – John Ashker and Nancy J. Hvasta Leonardi are born.
• 29 December – The 11-foot filming model of the USS Enterprise as it was designed by Matt Jefferies is delivered to the Howard Anderson Company by Richard Datin, who oversaw the construction of the model.
• 31 December – Karin Baxter is born.

Unknown month

• Eric Cadora, Nikki Tyler, and Wyatt Weed are born.

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